Defense and Space

The U.S. Navy awarded L3Harris a $496 million contract to launch the four-year engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the NGJ-LB program.

Epirus, a startup building high-power microwave (HPM) applications for UAV deployment, closed a $70 million funding round that included an investment by L3Harris Technologies.

The project could provide yet another opportunity for more retail-level investors to get in on the growing space economy.

A small team at Hanscom AFB developed a new way to transmit video from the Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) to a ground-based terminal.

The “Space Prime” office would provide military certification for satellite payload replenishment, on-orbit refueling and other new-space advances.

South Korea's defense acquisition agency may opt for a private prime contractor and promote the effort as an international joint development project.

This webinar took place December 18, 2020 and was sponsored by Raytheon Intelligence & Space. The Pentagon’s largest acquisition system, the F-35, is

The UK’s new fleet of E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft are to be based in Scotland rather than England.

Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA) have confirmed the root cause of the Vega launcher failure on Nov. 16 lay in the assembly process, as opposed to being a design flaw.

How regional defense plans are changing in the Middle East as Israel and Arab states work to isolate Iran.

Industrial and regional changes open vast new opportunities for Israel’s defense sector.

Forecasts, snapshots and aircraft to watch.

Sanctions against Turkey’s SSB could taint the country’s future defense exports and stimulate it toward greater self-sufficiency.

A year ago, the U.S. military created its first new service since 1947. The Space Force is coming into its own, but fast enough?

North filed pilot reports on more than 120 aircraft and was a protector of his staff and the publication.

His path defined an era of singular achievement driven by skill, courage and a bit of luck.

U.S. OKs G550 sale to Italy; Saudi Arabia’s final F-15SA deliveries; Russia launches anti-satellite test; and U.S. fighters swap data.

When the world experiences a major economic slowdown, and we should expect similar pressures following the COVID-19-induced global recession

The Department of Energy says the recently disclosed cyberattack against the agency did not compromise the National Nuclear Security Administration’s classified systems, but the breach is still causing a stir on Capitol Hill.

Cost sharing for the third phase of National Security Space Launch contracts will likely require more investment from the government than industry, according to United Launch Alliance Chief Executive Officer Tory Bruno.

Israel’s Missile Defense Organization and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency have completed a series of missile defense tests that indicate Israel’s multilayered air defenses can intercept incoming threats simultaneously.

An independent report commissioned by Lockheed Martin suggests that the F-35 program could generate as much as £40 billion ($53.9 billion) for the UK economy up to 2038.

The council of the European Space Agency has appointed Josef Aschbacher—currently ESA’s director of Earth observation programs—as the next director general, replacing Jan Woerner in 2021.

BOEING agreed to 25-year lease of new 370,000 sq ft military jet MRO facility (270,000 sq ft hangar space and 100,000 sq ft office/support shops) to

The Joint Interagency Task Force-South is advocating that the military services bring aircraft for training to the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility instead of a range stateside.